In this experiment, our goal was to find the amount of bacterial colonies in three samples of
earwax and whether or not they were antibiotic resistant. The three samples consisted of earwax
exposed to hearing aids, earwax exposed to headphones, and earwax

Human earwax, formally known as cerumen, exists in two forms, wet and dry (1). These two
forms are associated with race and controlled by two autosomal alleles, of which the dry form
is commonly found in Mongolians and American Indians and the wet form is

In this experiment, three different samples of earwax were collected with cotton swabs. One
sample of earwax was collected from an individual wearing hearing aids, one from an individual
wearing earphones for four hours prior to collection, and one from a